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Thread: Lyman 350447 in the 1907 Winchester, .351 WSL

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    Lyman 350447 in the 1907 Winchester, .351 WSL

    A few years ago, my brother and I started messing with and trading notes on the old 1907 Winchester. I played around off and on with mine, which is scoped. I even hunted with it successfully, story is here; http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...317823-351-wsl

    Though it worked, I wasn't real satisfied with the old .35 WSL bullet and plain based gas checks I was using. Accuracy was OK, but I got weird flyers more often than I was comfortable with and I theorize it is because the plain based gas checks came off some in flight. Bottom line, not a satisfactory bullet without some more work.

    I got a NOS single cavity mold of the 350447, designed as a light weight bullet for the .348 Winchester, and cast a few of the standard 50/50 WW to range salvage + 1% tin, but water dropped them. I seated the gas checks and then ran them through a custom .352 sizer a fellow member here made for me. Then I dipped them in heated LLA up to the first driving band. This bullet is heavier than the data in my old Lyman manual calls for, so I went about a full grain under the minimum starting load data with 4227. I seated them to where they would just load into the magazine.

    They function through the rifle flawlessly, and gave me three and a half inch groups at 100 yards. I didn't shoot very many, but I think this bullet has promise and because it has a decent meplat designed for use in lever guns with tube magazines, I should be able to soft point cast some and have a good deer load.

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    That boolit didn't work very well for me in my Winchester 71, hope it works better for you.
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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check